Item : 4470 | | Description |
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Description : Ancient Greek Sicily Silver Tetradrachm Messana | | Obverse: The nymph Messana, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow biga of mules right, Nike flying right to crown mules; in exergue, leaf and berry right./
Reverse: MESSANION, hare springing right; below, fly right. |
Authenticity: Forgery - Published |
Category : Ancient Greek Sicily - Coins | | Series Date: 425 BCE - 412 BCE |
Category Details | | Source |
Category : Ancient | | Sold as: Unknown |
: Greek | | Source : IBSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits BOCS Vol 13 No.1 1988 Page 4 Fig 3 Entered by : Mac |
: Sicily | | http://www.iapn-coins.org |
Key Info | | Item Details |
Region : Messana
| | Catalog Rizzo 1 |
Denomination : Tetradrachm
| | Weight : 17.2g |
Content : Silver
| | Condemnation |
| | This coin has been condemned by the IBSCC Photo/ by permission International Bureau for the Suppression of Counterfeit Coins. Refer Bulletin on Counterfeits reference above. Dangerous Counterfeit. Charot shape is different, Nike is smaller, letters are recut and therefore larger. |
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